We’re getting serious! Club chiefs vote to join the LPL

The Road’s club committee have voted to join the London Premier League next season if it decides to downsize its fixture list.

LPL ‘burghers’ contacted King’s Road fixtures secretary Dan Sherman to say it is considering moving from home and away fixtures to a ‘Six Nations’ model.

They offered King’s Road a place in a potentially revamped set-up which would involve each team playing each other just once.

As it stands, five teams play in the LPL meaning each side had eight league games in the 2011 season.

The LPL had offered King’s Road entry into the 2012 competition earlier this year, but after meeting to discuss the proposal The Road’s committee decided against joining.

Concerns were raised that, with an extra team, ten fixtures would clog up the season meaning friendly games against other teams would have to be dropped.

But under the proposed new set-up King’s Road would only have to play five games.

The teams currently in the LPL are Cairns Fudge (London), Centurions, Corridors, London Itinerants and the Twenty Minuters.

Last year Twenty Minuters ran out winners, with regular King’s Road opponents the London Itinerants runners up.

The Road are already due to take on the Corridors in the first match of the season on April 28. That is scheduled to be a friendly, but could now become a league match.

The Road’s committee consists of chairman James Coundrey, captain Giles Fagan, Raju Mazumder, Leon Watson, Dan Sherman, Rich Peralta and Kevin Pittaway.